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SAP Material Master – Basic View Summary

In today’s class, we have discussed the business significance of some important fields in the Basic View of the Material Master.

Material Type

Material Name

Material Description

Unit of Measure

Material Group

Old Material Number

Division

Gross Weight

Volume

SAP Material Master Exercise

Scenario : Company ABC Inc is selling computers ( Desktops and Laptops ). They are currently using a Mainframe system to sell computers. They have currently grouped their products as follows.

IBU – Intel Based CPU

ABU – AMD Based CPY

M17 – 17 ” Monitors

M19 – 19″ Monitors

WM – Wired Mouse

LM – Wireless Mouse

WKB – Wired Keyboard

LKB – Wireless Keyboard

A single computer consists of CPU, Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse. Here are some sample products in their existing Mainframe system. Any of these Products are sold as individual pieces if necessary and are sold as Finished Products.

Material Name

Description

Weight

Volume

987655

ABC Graphic Desktop

10 Lbs

6 Cu Ft

765432

ABC Portable Laptop

5 Lbs

1 Cu Ft

987654

ABC Performance Desktop

10 Lbs

6 Cu Ft

The company wishes to discontinue the current material names are they are difficult to remember and moving towards a more user friendly nomenclature in the new SAP system you are going ot implement for them. Here is how they wish to rename their products.

Old Material Name

New Material Name

987655

DIMOKK-17

765432

LIMOLL-13

987654

DIMOLL-19

Question 1 : How many divisions would you create in this case ?

Question 2 : How many material groups would you create in this case ?

Question 2 : Migrate all the above materials to SAP and give the materials numbers in your answers.

You do not have to create divisions if you dont want to. You can choose an existing division. If you want to create more divisions , you would have to go to the enterprise structure. You can do that from the session SAP SD Enterprise Structure which contains the configuration steps on how to create the enterprise structure.

once we create material master . can we extend it like i created a material master i just saved it incomplete like i created only basic data1 and basic data2 accounting1
sales 1 2, if want to add CLASSIFICATION?

Khawar
You can extend is very much and that is how it should be done. As discussed in the Material master class, The material is extended step by step by the respective departments and the transaction to do it is MM01

Question 1 : How many divisions would you create in this case ?
The scenario does not indicate multiple sales organizations or distribution channels, or manufacture (only speaks to selling various products that may have been originally purchased from a manufacturer). The products (CPU’s, Monitors,…) can be both stand alone finished products and package components that do not require complicated assemble (only packaging or seperate shipment, so only 1 division is required.

Question 2 : How many material groups would you create in this case ?
The company has already elected to have a high level of granularity in thier product categories. This may indicate that there are multiple products in each category and the wish to report to these specific categories. In addition the sample desktop PC products are composite “packaged” products that may be grouped for shipment using a Bill of Materials from the existing material groups or shipped as separate components, so I added 2 material groups “package computers and Lap tops. Note: If this company is not the actual manufacter then Lap Tops are sinlgle stand alone components and could have been included in ZLC1 or ZLC2, but what the heck I gave them a separate group.

Materails created for DIMOKK-17, LIMOLL-13, DIMOLL-19 for the US sales organization, distribution channel, and division compatible with my test customer 19102. Many of the material attributes were copied from the existing material general information eneterd by other students.

Ans: I would create two divisions Desktops and Laptops as that is their main business.

Question 2 : How many material groups would you create in this case ?
Ans: Since it is not clear whether ABC computers manufactures or assembles the products I am assuming that it does the assembling of the products and hence would create 4 material groups based on their line of business ie CPU, Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse.

Question 3 : Migrate all the above materials to SAP and give the materials numbers in your answers.
Ans: All the three materials created
DIMOKK-17, LIMOLL-13, DIMOLL-19

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